The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.